Understanding others' views
Featured in the Winning Teams training manual
By Tony Bray
Category: Team Building
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
A winning team will always demonstrate its ability to understand other people’s or departments’ views in order to make sound decisions.
This very participative training activity allows the participants to expose and resolve potentially sensitive feelings in a safe and constructive environment by allowing them to pass written comments to each other. The whole process involves five separate phases: briefing – an initial briefing to explain the objectives and how the session will be run; sending – the participants then break into small teams and start to send messages to their colleagues; exploring – the teams reflect on the messages they’ve received and discuss specific comments with their originating authors to learn more about the feelings, issues or concerns; responding – participants decide how they should react to the comments they’ve received and note what changes in behaviour have been prompted; and finally, reviewing – the main group reforms to discuss how the training activity will help them to make improvements at their workplace.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to take participants through an exhaustive process for discovering what other people really think about situations.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 05:00:00 |
| No of Pages: | 15 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers whenever a team or department is to all intents and purposes ‘sound’ but there are long-standing issues that never seem to be resolved.
Download the training activity, Understanding others' views as featured in the Fenman training manual; Winning Teams